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I recently bought a new computer:
MSI K7T Turbo
1.4GHz Athlon
GeForce2 MX400 64Mb
256Mb RAM
That''s it for the important stuff, I guess. Here''s my prob: I only get 750 3DMarks, which is about right I guess: I get +-7fps in the lo-detail car-chase in 1024x768x32. That is less than my friend''s P3 800MHz with Kyro2 get: he gets 1500 Marks and a friend with a 1Ghz Athlon and GeForce2 gets 2500Marks.
I downloaded the newest drivers from nvidia.com but this doesn''t improve performance, and it screws up the Advanced Settings window (all kind of garbage on screen, no actual settings anymore).
Anybody have ideas?
Thanx in advance,
Thamas

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BTW, I''m using a 800mhz Athlon with 320mb ram and Geforce256. i get 1900+ on 3dmark2001.maybe, your bios settings aren''t set right.need to enable fast writes for video, enable 4x if possible.disable video shadowing.

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BGCJR makes a good point: about a month ago I upgraded my computer with a MSI K7T Turbo and a 1.333GHz Athlon (already had a GeForce). I also encountered some problems with 3DMark2001 (meaning it was slow and stuttered a lot); they especially occurred when the computer was accessing the HD. I did a couple of things that helped a lot: first of all I got the newest BIOS version for my motherboard and set everything to maximum performance. Next I got the latest VIA 4-in-1 drivers from the MSI website and they also improved the performance a bit. Finally, the latest GeForce drivers should help too.

The BIOS upgrade had the greatest impact, because it solved a HD data transfer problem.

PS: the MSI cdrom has a few utilities that you can use to download the latest drivers.